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MP3 Going the Way of the 8-Track?
joepa writes "According to this MSN/ZDNet story, MP3 is dying. Overall, the data has not shown a clear trend, but at least one recent study reports that people are deleting MP3s faster than they are downloading them. AAC and WMA, meanwhile, are apparently gaining market share. Is this evidence that MP3 is being used largely to sample music rather than for permanent archival and listening purposes? They still don't think so. "
"Is this evidence that MP3 is being used largely to sample music rather than for permanent archival and listening purposes?"
Is this statement evidence that someone's trying to justify illegal activity? Maybe you should try the ol' trusty "Your honor, she was asking for it! You should have seen the way that MP3 was dressed."
Has netcraft confirmed it?
I think this should be obvious, given the rise of "legitimate" music sites like iTunes none too eager to use MP3 as their format of choice. But MP3 will always be around, given the thousands of people out there who have vast hoards of MP3 collections from the heady days of Napster 1.0.
I prefer my music to have that scratchy tin can sound of my youthful use of a pocket transistor radio tuned to the AM band. So of course my collection is all in Real Audio format. Takes less space, sounds awful, and with Real Alternative I can listen without the adware. Yeah I know, all the other formats: pure pristine sound. Well my other record player is a 78 Victrola....
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
...because I just moved my 80+ GB collection to a bigger drive and cleaned off the old one.
Gotta have room for all the new quality music comming out of the music industry, you know.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Marketing data, that we can archive. 2 Live Crew's greatest hits, rm -rf *. If someone wants to back up their music on tape, I recommend casette
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
It is official; Netcraft confirms: MP3 is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered MP3 community when IDC confirmed that MP3 market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all music files. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that MP3 has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. MP3 is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive audio test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict MP3's future. The hand writing is on the wall: MP3 faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for MP3 because MP3 is dying. Things are looking very bad for MP3. As many of us are already aware, MP3 continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Open source MP3 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time MP3 developers Frauhofer and Philips only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: MP3 is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Due to the troubles of Frauhofer and Philips, abysmal sales and so on, Philips went out of business and was taken over by Magnavox who sell another troubled audio system. Now MP3 is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that MP3 has steadily declined in market share. MP3 is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If MP3 is to survive at all it will be among audio dilettante dabblers. MP3 continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, MP3 is dead.
Fact: MP3 is dying
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On behalf of the entire Slashdot community, I must say... leave.
You mean I'm going to have to deal with my dad constantly shifting his boxes of 8-Tracks AND MP3s around the attic and complaining about not 'being able to find a decent player anymore'?
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I'll show them. I'll just burn my mp3's to an 8 track. They'll never take my music! NEVERRRRRRRRR!!!!
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Well my other record player is a 78 Victrola....
You kids these days with your 'records.' Wax cylinders were good enough for me when I was your age, and they're good enough for me now.
By the way, your sig is the cat's meow.
KFG
I, for one, welcome our new hard-drive-monitoring overlords.
:P
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
I delete MP3s when they are riddled with ... beeps
Techno hater.
I'm _deleting_ my mp3s, I promise, all AAC and WMA over here...... Very, very true....
Also my dick is enormous, much larger than yours. My car is faster than everybody else's. I own my own island, it's called Manhattan. I have PhDs in everything. Additionally last Wednesday I received my fifteenth Knighthood. And the Nobel prize committee recently decided to change the name of their prize in honor of me.
I'm right. You're wrong. I'm an authority, you're just an ignorant fucktard.
Oh yeah, the skin on my ass makes a baby's bottom feel like sandpaper. And my farts smell like fucking cheesecake.
MP3 is piracy, piracy is wrong. If you pirate music, you are a criminal and belong behind bars.
Now, see, that's what I love about Slashdot: the finely nuanced and rational discourse. It's good to know that we provide a forum for debate in which Tucker Carlson would feel right at home.
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The first year you discover MP3, you get everything you always wanted, but could never find on CD. The second year, you go back to your first-year tracks, realize that 128/Xing sounds like ass, and redownload them at 192/LAME.
;-)
Then the third year you realize MP3 in general sounds like ass, and switch to all Vorbis. The fourth year, you realize that not all Vorbis encoders work equally well (same as with Xing vs Lame), and switch to GT3 or aoTuV at Q10. The fifth year you realize that you can hear (admittedly very little, but some) distortion even at the highest possible Vorbis quality you can get, and try using things like AAC, hacked WMV, and other oddballs.
Finally, the sixth year, you realize that HDD space has grown to the point where you can afford to store your entire CD collection in a lossless format, and rip everything, one last time, to FLAC.
And on the seventh year, I finally got to rest.
Now, of course, 5.1ch 24bps@192KHz will become the dominant PCM format (or something even more exotic and non-PCM, like DSD used by SACD), and we start the entire cycle over. Those damned Jonses, they just keep getting better compression ratios than me!
Didn't you just say "boxen?"
"According to this MSN/ZDNet story, JPG is dying. Overall, the data has not shown a clear trend, but at least one recent study reports that people are deleting JPG'S faster than they are downloading them. GIF and BMP, meanwhile, are apparently gaining market share. Is this evidence that JPG is being used largely to sample pictures rather than for permanent archival and viewing purposes? They still don't think so. " Only time will tell...only time will tell.
I delete MP3s when they are riddled with ... beeps
Noooo.... Those are communications from an alien race...
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Dear MP3... Even though experts have decreed that you will soon be replaced by a new and better way of doing things, I wouldn't worry. Signed, IPv4 Coca-Cola Classic
Why is mp3 going the way of the 8-track? Why do people want to start putting mp3's on 8-track now? That erases any portability gains. Also, 8-track sucks. In case people don't know, 8-track is so old (like 1960's and 70's) it's not even funny. Now I am gonna have to shop around at flea markets for an 8-track player just so I can enjoy my myraid of MP3's. Those things suck up battery life like no-one's business too. Well I hope I can get one of those GROOVY models that have built-in speakers that split the one speaker apart so you can have better stereo. Ooh! I want one with additional speaker jacks so I can have QUADRAPHONIC sound. That would be totally kicky-blast and wailin'.
>>>>>> Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
Real audiophiles (no that does not mean they have sex with their hi-fi) use analog because they claim that CD's loose to much of the music. Just because we don't "hear" it doesn't mean we don't "hear" it. Apparently.
Are those the same people who also claim that CDR-Audio sounds better than Audio recorded on CDR-Data?
Robert
Bastard Operator From 193.219.28.162
Not when I finish my upgrade to my computer. I'm hooking up one of the old cassette data storage devices and putting the 8 track adapter in it :)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
No the 3rd year you realise you cant hear.
This is NOT about Google Desktop.
...but at least one recent study reports that people are deleting MP3s faster than they are downloading them...
This study also found that burning an mp3 to a CD-R was slower than deleting it. Story at 11.